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After the conquest of the native population of Mexico by Spanish forces, missionaries compiled illustrated works on native history and religion. This dissertation examines three sixteenth-century manuscripts having related texts and illustrations: the Historia de las Indias, of …

Fevers had a significant presence in Mexico's sixteenth-century medical manuscripts, a consequence of the endemic and epidemic infections common to the pre and post-Hispanic eras. The distinctly Aztec conceptualization of these fevers invites further inquiry into the Aztec medic…